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Best Injury Poems

Below are the all-time best Injury poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of injury poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...

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Categories: injury, death, evil, family, fate,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member Tears On Her Pillow - Continued From a Girl Named Sue
Tears for a Mother
Fears for a Father gone
Fate deals an unfair hand
The door to youthful joy closing
on adolescent shoulders imposing
grown up responsibilities instead

Eyes sadly deprived...

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Categories: injury, fate, first love, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Dove In Your Eyes
How fast to wiles I fell my damask rose,
awake from slumber slept untold ages.
To gaze so deep in ocean eyes repose,
and print whispered prayer on...

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Categories: injury, imagery, lonely, love, perspective,
Form: Sonnet
My Torment
A fleeting still small voice tries to warn me
A sudden overwhelming desire to run
The tell tale taste of metallic flakes
Means my nightmare has begun

Everything around...

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Categories: injury, angst, confusion, depression, health,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Flammable Soul

Raging fires roared, yet nothing could hold her back;
she was born in flames...

Sadly, that which helps forge vitality, indubitably, burns.

Embers soon seek refuge in blanketed...

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Categories: injury, fire, humanity, loss, passion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Drunken Moon
~ Injustice Moon Among Us ~


deeper than twilight
the moon to moon afterglow
a wave crush the mood
***
Stereotype motion
Two face under water 
Human injury 


(Senryu of Being...

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Categories: injury, beautiful, dream, fantasy, love,
Form: Senryu
Pages - a Shape Poem
  THE NEWS 


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Life Defined by Moments Blindsided
written by The Broken Hearted

Read the news today. There is blues      ...

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Categories: injury, suicide,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Disaster On Flight Fd4465e
I arrived at the airport, along with my wife
For two whole weeks we'll live the good life
We're flying out today for a break in Italy
The...

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Categories: injury, boat, fear, flying, holiday,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member My Love For Trees
Seems as I age
My fondness for trees only grows
Their resilience and gracefulness
Their symmetry and beauty
Their arms outstretched heavenward
As if asking to be blessed with a...

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Categories: injury, courage, endurance, inspirational love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gut Punch
Bearing the brunt of betrayal, 
his long-time lady lover leaves him 
for another flame. Surprisingly saying 
"I'm so sorry, Sam, we should start
seeing other people"

Broken...

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Categories: injury, betrayal, friendship, love, relationship,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member The Ukrainian Flag Flies Again In Kherson
The Ukrainian flag flies again in Kherson, it is a joy to see
The Russian army are running scared from Ukraines military
Russia pulled out its army...

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Categories: injury, celebration, conflict, death, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Echoes of a Silent Night: The Christmas Miracle of 1914
In a hellish nightmare pit, soldiers stand...
Along the Western Front's cruel, jagged land,
Where blood and tears paint the earth's sad lore,
They mourn their fallen with...

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Categories: injury, christmas, friendship, hope, love,
Form: Narrative
Coronality Part 1
CORONALITY (1)

Polyneuropathy of a poisonous dark child,
Weapon of mass destruction,
Born to the family called Earth,
Name Corona, last name Virus,
Nickname Covid, aged nineteen (19),
Nationality China, who...

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Categories: injury, death, earth, grief, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vernal
"In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go...

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Categories: injury, spring,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Thumb In My Eye
A stupid place to stick my thumb
     Right in my eye that was so dumb
It hurt so bad it made me...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: injury, cry, drink, health, hurt,
Form: Limerick

Book: Shattered Sighs